But I can understand these texts and its examples. Seriously, though, I have not adequately understood any programming manuals without trying to implement programs in that language. If this means that all of those programming manuals were inadequate, then so be it.
Put different: there's a reason the first chapter of K&R's C Programming Book (the "Hello World" program) has become such a meme. Thanks, -- Raul On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Erling Hellenäs <[email protected]> wrote: > That a manual is readable just means that you can understand the text and > the examples supplied. It does not mean you are able to fully use the > language after reading it. If you can't understand the text and the examples > without experimenting at a terminal the manual is not readable. /Erling > > On 2017-12-16 13:56, Raul Miller wrote: >> >> Sadly, expecting people to understand a language without actually >> using it leads to all sorts of failure modes - where people claim to >> understand the language but have no actual experience with it. >> >> Thanks, >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
